Connector
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- OBJECT TYPE
- PACEMAKER/CARDIAC/IMPLANTABLE
- DATE
- 1965–1970
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1985.0603.002
- MANUFACTURER
- National Research Council Canada
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- White plastic with brown cord.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 11.6 cm
- Width
- 4.5 cm
- Height
- 1.8 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Research
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- NRC
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Late 1960s
- Canada
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Used in NRC pacemaker programme. 1st pacemaker developed at NRC in 1950 by John Hopps was approx. 30 cm long and several cm high & wide. Development of transistors & reliable batteries permitted design of pacemaker of implantable size (1957). Pacemaker regarded as one of greatest Canadian engineering achievements of 20th century. (ref.2) - Function
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Used to conduct electrical current to heart, in order to stimulate heartbeat. - Technical
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Match plugs on the 6 non-implantable pacemakers were the interface between external pacemaker and internal electrodes leading to the animal's heart, implanted at the skin surface. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- White, blue and brown.
- Decoration
- N/A
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National Research Council Canada, Connector, between 1965–1970, Artifact no. 1985.0603, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1985.0603.002/
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